Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Feeling or sense of anything; the state of being deeply affected by anything.
- noun Resentment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Resentment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Feeling or sense of anything; the state of being deeply
affected by anything. - noun obsolete
Resentment .
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Examples
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Because, after all, resentiment is your only real philosophical currency.
Franken... Ann Althouse 2009
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But so much of this resentment, or even Nietzshean resentiment of the red ant army kind, does come from people like him.
First Lady Charged Michael Turton 2006
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His father must have married his mother out of some such violent impulse as had seized himself yesterday afternoon, and resentiment about his weakness had spoilt his whole life.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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Shorter VD Hanson: Speaking for all Americans, I can happily assert that resentiment is a joyful thing.
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So much for community thinking if you can't even pay the people that work for you the same wage you expect for yourself. fuckheads. really now. oh, and the post's title has to do with the way Joel Salatin (and Pollan unquestioningly) expresses a politics of resentiment. yikes. shag carpet bomb
Bitch | Lab 2008
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[Footnote: "Cet object qu'ils ont devant les yeux, leur renouvellant continuellement le resentiment de leurs pertes, leur fait ordinairement letter des cris, et faire des lamentations tout à fait lugubres, le tout en chanson.
The Iroquois Book of Rites Horatio Hale 1856
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